Principal CAD Engineer

🏢 Impinjexternal · 📍 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Impinj delivers the Physical Intelligence that connects the physical world to the AI-powered digital world, fueling automated workflows and improving consumer experiences. From retail merchandise and groceries to packages and shipping pallets, Impinj products and solutions identify and track tens of billions of everyday items, providing real-time operational insights about every item enterprises make, move and sell. We are, quite literally, the eyes and ears of smart enterprise systems. Come help us build technology and solutions that enable businesses to visualize everything, waste nothing and act instantly.

Team Overview:

The CAD Silicon Support Engineering team is the backbone of our silicon development engine. We are a high-impact, multi-disciplinary group of engineers dedicated to building, maintaining, and optimizing the critical Electronic Design Automation (EDA) environments, toolchains, and methodologies that enable our design teams to tape out world-class silicon.

Our mission, to accelerate time-to-market and maximize engineering productivity by delivering robust, highly automated, and deterministic CAD workflows. We bridge the gap between EDA vendor tools and the unique, complex demands of our custom silicon architectures, ensuring maximum tool uptime, optimal license utilization, and flawless data management.

What you will do:

Develop process development kit elements (PDK), including DRC, LVS and Extraction rule decks, model files, custom parameterized cells, and timing files.

Setup and configure EDA tools for design teams
Specify workstation and server systems, develop Linux OS installation and maintenance scripts, administer and support user accounts
Support team members on the Linux Operating System
Support circuit and layout designers using DRC, LVS and Extraction tools
Support analog and digital design flows and tools from project setup through tape out
Work with static timing tools and library characterization tools
Work alongside designers to help debug and sometimes automate design tasks, and be a liaison between designers and tool vendors

What you will bring:

Bachelor’s degree with 15 years of experience or MS with 10 years of experience in Electrical Engineering or related f

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Impinjexternal Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing deep hardware-software integration capabilities, RF engineering or IoT systems mastery, and scalable RAIN RFID edge technology execution.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Operating in a silo by focusing exclusively on software or hardware without understanding the cross-functional stack.
2. Failing to grasp the harsh physical and environmental constraints of deploying connected devices at scale.
3. Lack of methodical debugging approaches for complex embedded or RF systems.

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I build robust silicon-to-cloud IoT architectures that connect everyday enterprise items to the digital world with extreme reliability.

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